skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually it's a backup thing, not a 24/7 thing. If you're really out in the sticks, solar/battery/genset is a very likely complete system. I know of a couple places way up north in Saskatchewan that have what amounts to a mining village running off a big portable genset backed up with batteries, and one of them I know was just on a very big genset, and they were able to pay for a battery bank by downsizing their generator significantly due to the disparity between peak load and average load. I'd share the article I read about it, but, in spite of my normally excellent google-fu, I've been unable to find it.

Either way, people forget about this, because if you have any sort of power generation, doesn't matter the method, if you go over capacity, you have brownouts/blackouts/grid failure/etc. What is deployed now, for the most part, is sufficient genset capacity to ramp into peak load, and most of it is under-utilized the majority of the time. Batteries eventually pay for themselves because of this, as they allow for peak load handling in addition to allowing generating capacity to stay online and remain profitable outside of peak load events. It really is revolutionary.

More or less, gridscale batteries are what dams/reservoirs were to water systems, and if you consider the impact of us as a species being able to save water for later use at-will, the promise we're looking at is going to really change the way we live.
there are some projects which are there doing it for fun.

This one from Youtuber Jerry Rig Everything https://notawheelchair.com/products/the-rig

He usually reviews mobile phone durability etc, there are videos on his channel about the chair, this started as project for his wife who was paralyzed in riding accident very young.

Akin to the flamethrower that Musk was selling a while back as long you don’t call it a medical device there isn’t much regulations (hard to differentiate say a Walmart scooter style device from a actual wheelchair)

Of course if it’s not a medical device it won’t qualify for insurance or Medicare , but you can still sell it for reasonable prices
"Crash blossoms" (2010) [0]

"Noun piles" (2011-) [2,3]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage...

[1] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4418

[2] https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=29803
Leah Neukirchen's former blog, Anarchaia was the inspiration for Tumblr. Business Insider, The History of Tumblr (https://www.businessinsider.com/the-history-of-tumblr-2013-5...):

> In March 2005, a 17-year-old German high school student named Chris Neukirchen invented this tumblelog system, specifically for super-short blogging. He even used the term "tumblin'" on his site
In my impression of using AI a lot more recently, hallucinations are a non-issue if you are simply using it to transform data. AI hallucinates when it's being asked to extract data from it's own "memory" but not when it's simply given a task to perform and all the necessary input to do it.
> energy in the real world isn't free.

That's because we haven't figured out how to harness it.

For example, 99.9999% of the sun's energy just disappears off into space.

We sit on a hot planet, all that's needed to drive our energy needs is to drill a hole through the mantle. But nobody has figured out how to do that yet.
I know people who work there, too. Some of them are execs. Let’s just say I don’t need help framing the article. My sole motivation is to get things to where merit and merit alone determines who gets hired and promoted. Not genitalia, sexual identity/orientation or color of the person’s skin.
I thought browser tabs only had access to ~400mb

How do you have access to 5gb?
Yeah, they don't advertise it very well. It was actually a pretty good value add for me; I was already paying $10 for Kagi search, and $20 for OpenAI, so the $25 for both actually saved me $5/month.

I think you can upgrade to Ultimate at a per-account level for another $15/month.

EDIT: Accidentally wrote "pro" when I meant Ultimate.
Then you can choose to pay that premium for a wheelchair, or any other good or service, evaluated by a third party of your choosing. But others, with potentially different requirements, should be able to choose different third parties who evaluate by different criteria. At the very least, you should be able to disregard a third party's evaluation of safety for a wheelchair. The idea that there should be one master evaluation and all other evaluations are redundant holds no water.
Hey, if we’re going with uncharitable readings I’ll give my own a go…

I challenge you to write me “correct and useful program” without syntax.

Be mindful, the natural language you use to communicate with llms also, brace yourself, has syntax.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax

You ever gone a week without SyNtAx?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X9FJiDFVoOo

> just as correctly spelling a string of words is not enough to create a novel.

I present to you finnegans wake. ;P
I’m glad I made you laugh
I'm just seeing ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH at https://secretllama.com/ and at http://secretllama.com/ I see "secretllama.com has been registered at Porkbun but the owner has not put up a site yet. Visit again soon to see what amazing website they decide to build."
Which countries force you where to live and what job to work at?
Dude has to wake up. Europe is done, it's a museum. He's thinking about tech but the real problem is lacking economical basis in Europe. Germany introduced spot natural gas prices and it skyrocketed. Next someone blew up the Nord Stream. Now Europe can't produce reasonably priced fertilizers. And all that green energy is a joke.
Well it doesn't need to imply it, those measures do drive up the cost without debate. It's fine that they do though as we value people's lives more than that.
Good question, it does. Here’s the relevant line from their current ToS:

> IF YOU’RE A U.S. RESIDENT, YOU ALSO AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING MANDATORY ARBITRATION PROVISIONS.

https://discord.com/terms#16
The correct analogy here is grammar, not spelling.

Someone who hasn't mastered the written grammar of the language in which they wish to write a novel, is unlikely to produce anything someone else would want to read.
What exactly do you mean 'blatantly obvious'? Because to me, the issue that is blatantly obvious is that we don't have enough regulations on PE.

Let's say in this scenario you do import an electric wheelchair. You fork out a few thousand dollars on the expensive costs of said purchases. It breaks. No one in America can repair it. Or if they can repair it, you have to go through the PE-owned wheelchair market, whom charge a premium. Your options are fork out the money for repairs, import another wheelchair, or send it abroad for repairs.

Assuming that instead you create a company designed around importing said wheelchairs, PE buys you out and then sells imported wheelchairs at monopolistic prices.
I don't think I agree with your last paragraph. ChatGPT is getting better and better, I have reason to think it won't continue to keep incrementally improving. As such, I think allowing students to use it to answer coding questions is going to make it so they don't actually understand anything.

I said in sibling thread that I'd be fine enough with having a class like "Software Engineering Using AI" or something, but when the class is specifically about learning Object Oriented programming and Java and Python, I do not think having heavy use of ChatGPT is a good idea.

Also, not all the questions were pure coding, I had some more conceptual questions on there, and ChatGPT is really good at answering those.
I would recommend keeping one handle open to /dev/urandom rather than opening and closing a new one every single time you generate a new random number.
this was in 01990–01993 and my family didn't own a camcorder; perhaps instead of trying to get your information from videos you should consider consulting an introductory strength of materials textbook
If the justice system prevents access to itself like this, can it really call itself a justice system anymore?
I live in NYC and have ordered from 3 different delivery apps in the last 2 weeks - GrubHub, GoPuff and a local alcohol delivery app. All of them let me tip in advance when placing the order.
The no further regulation option is people looking for the “made in …” on goods and not buying from certain countries. Then invoke Milton freedman.
I recently started using JAX for some ion-optics work in accelerator physics. I have found it very very good. The autodiff stuff is magical for doing optimisation work, but even just as a compiled-numpy, I have found it very easy to get highly performant code. For reference, I previously tried roughly the same thing in “numba”, and wasn’t able to get anywhere near the same performance as JAX, even running on the CPU, which I understand is JAX’s weakest backend. By and large I have just written basically idiomatic Python/numpy code — sprinkled a few “vmap”s and “scan”s around, and got great results. I’m very pleased with JAX.
Value of one of S.F.'s biggest buildings plunges by 80% after Uber, Block leave
only 80,000 “actions”? Any script kiddie can permanently bring down this site
Headline modified to fit. Original: "One of S.F.'s biggest office buildings sees value plunge by 80% after departure of Uber, Block"
Custom OAuth Scopes, Third-Party Applications, and FusionAuth
So what’s the best option for a smart thermostat that works entirely locally with home assistant?
It is custom html/css built with my own simple static site generator. The entropy styling is css animations delayed for each letter such that it matches up. Glad that you liked it!
Gaza was definitely not a colony of Israel by any stretch of that word. The West bank is frozen in the midst of a peace process that fell apart but the word colony is not an accurate description either. Open air prison is also not a thing.

The oppressor in Gaza is Hamas. An oppressor in the west bank is the PA. Israel is also in that mix, yes. It is putting extreme restrictions on a population inside an occupied territory that is using violence against it.

The narrative does not fit. In terms of international law, Israel has occupied the territory of Jordan in the west bank. If the residents of that territory e.g. conduct suicide bombings against Israelis then Israel is allowed to take measures against that. It is in fact allowed to take significantly more severe measures than it has (e.g. including a death penalty).

I would say in some sense you're right an the Palestinians are oppressed. I would also say the restrictions on them are in place mostly for security reasons. If there was no violence against Israelis there would be no restrictions (and that in fact was pretty much the case before the first intifada when violence levels were much lower restrictions and "oppression" was also significantly lower). There is also the problem of settlements in the west bank and Israeli ideologies of "the full land of Israel" (strangely enough aligned with your idea of the Palestinians being disenfranchised Israelis). The wall that was built around the west bank, which is called by some "the apartheid wall" was built for security reasons and as a direct response to wave of terrorist attacks in Israel. No attacks - no wall.

Is this all insane? Sure. Is it just a story of "Oppression" or "Apartheid"? It's not. The primary mechanism at play here is a violent struggle between Israel, Arab countries, and the Palestinians. Nationalism and religion.

The Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza, by the way and as far as I know, have no desire to be Israelis and anyways there is no legal framework or agreement in place that will facilitate land taken from Jordan or Egypt to become part of Israel (I think that's illegal under international law and I'm sure the world would not recognize the annexation of those territories). The peace agreements between Israel and Jordan don't allow for that either. It doesn't address the demands of the Palestinians either.
Have you ever tried to catch a sea-faring animal, with your hands, or a fishing rod, or a net?
Psycho Wand, My Beloved: A Story About Video Game Addiction
I like this one: https://chocolatebar.com/products/extreme-dark-88-dark-choco...

I'm a little bitter-sensitive, and it's the most-pleasant 88%+ I've had so far.

Still inevitably some carbs in cocoa, so you can do some carb-budget damage if you eat more than a serving--but I feel like it's a good treat for its weight.

They call a serving size 1/3 of the bar, with 11g carbs (4g fiber, 3g sugar). I think the bar is 3x5 squares, and I generally just have one at a time. Not sure I've had more than 3 squares in a day.

I think that would be around 7g total carbs, a bit under 2g sugar, and about 2.4g fiber (i.e. around 4.6g net carbs.)

(edit: i've seen them at cvs and target, at least--though my nearest cvs no longer carries the brand)
Nice article, and nicely written.

> My code from attempt #3 was effectively using base-255, with each byte acting as a single "digit".

I think the author means base-256, not base-255.
Probably still not worth it for me; I use gpt4 fairly heavily via API and still my API charges only come to about $5-7 a month.
It's truly amazing how quickly my browser loads 0.6GB of data. I remember when downloading a 1MB file involved phoning up a sysop in advance and leaving the modem on all night. We've come so far.
Both Android and iOS will do that when you receive a MMS.

Even if the MMS is supposedly on an intranet, it wouldn't surprise be that a poor implementation might expose the rest of the system to internet for a brief moment.
How does the joke go?

"Americans will measure with anything to avoid learning the metric system"

(I know this is about a British power plant but the tongue in cheek remark still works)
Breaking down Microsoft's pivot to placing cybersecurity as a top priority
I distinctly remember reading back in the day[0] the shale oil industry complaining how OPEC would drive up production with the sole intent of making shale oil extraction too expensive and bankrupting companies.

Apparently they went with the old "if you can't beat them, join them" defensive strategy.

[0] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/An-...

Took way too long to find that link, thanks google...
Given the state of SCOTUS, doubtful.
Woman follows advice to not exit Tesla during update – takes longer reaches 115F
I started with 3 half-hour sessions every other day, T Th S. Then added Monday, then bumped to 45 minutes, then an hour, still 4x a week. In hindsight, I think it was a bit much and I would have done better sticking with 3 30min sessions a week. I did okay with 4 hours a week, but I do think my trainer pushed me a bit much considering I had never exercised in my life (and I'm old!). For an older person, I'd recommend you take a year or even 2 to get your joints, tendons, and ligaments strengthened and don't push yourself to use heavy weights (power lifting) because while you may develop more muscle, your body's support structures may not be able to handle it. Once injured, it really cramps your workouts. Happened to me - right shoulder. I ended up having to stop all upper body stuff for about 6 months and do shoulder physical therapy (bands) to get my shoulder to calm down.

I do think a trainer is a great investment, even if you only use them for a year or two. You will learn a lot with a good trainer, and having that appointment increases your commitment.
> And here we are in 2024 watching the emergence of natural language programming, where we merely describe the program's specification in natural language and have the computer generate the rest. There's your new paradigm.

Is it? When you take procedural, object-oriented, logic, and functional programming, they did not only changes how we code, they also change how we think about the solution. We had new entities and we could describe the relations between them to describe an algorithm. Natural languages have been there forever, but the thing it lacks is formality. Every term describe a very large class of objects and specifying which one you're referring too is arduous. The kind of specification needed to describe problem solving steps is what created programming languages in the first place.

Programming languages are not some arcane art that we need to suffer through. They're the best way to specify to a machine how it should work to do a task. Maybe AI can be the new machine, but its capabilities so far are not that impactful IMO.
> when will tipping in general END?

already ended for me: i chose an apartment in the middle of a bunch of different great places within walking / pickup distance

i'll still leave a couple bucks at the counter when i go in if it was a big order tho
Straight from the horses mouth, some 8 years ago: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/11/17/global-diversity...

Quote: “Tying senior leaders’ compensation to diversity gains in their respective organizations.”
> even when talking about experiments designed to deliberately inflict pain on them.

I know someone on the ethics board at a university and the experiments here aren’t so terrible

> First, we verified that a stimulus deemed innocuous, like the touch of a soft makeup brush, activated touch neurons in the animal’s skin, and that a needle pricking the skin activated pain neurons. Then we recorded the animal’s response movements to each stimulus.

Human experiments on pain usually involve sticking a hand in a bucket of ice water. People taking their daily diabetes medication, prick skin multiple times a day without complaint, though it might be unpleasant.

But I’ll agree there’s a lack of sensitivity to the needless suffering of animals inflicted by humans. e.g., labs and factory farms have a lot to answer for. Though if we wanted to end suffering of all beings, we’d probably just want to terminate life completely such that a living being can never contrive to hurt another.. or somehow reengineer the biosphere to eliminate r-selection, and predation, an even more absurd proposition.
Is liability not a regulation? See: All of the arguments/debates about how to regulate self-driving cars in cases where the car injures someone.
Bilk Gates infected you with windows, perhaps some sort of parasitic control is causing you to believe it was mutually beneficial.
Executives and high ranking managers might not be people to you, but they also have invaluable institutional knowledge that will lost if they get fired.
There's a few billion people who can't afford the latest model iPhone or Google Pixel device each year
have any code on github? remembering my acc background, would be interesting to see...
I often use the so-called "lobotomized owl selector" (* + *) in the reset I use for my own internal tools. More specifically:

* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

* + * {
margin-top: 1em;
}
You can upgrade any family member to Kagi Ultimate plan for $15/mo and it will give you unlimited access to GPT-4, Claude 3 Opus, Gemini 1.5 Pro and other state of the models.
there are a lot of smartphones sold for low end markets like India and China. most of the worlds phones, actually.

not everyone lives in California and makes a million a year
> I feel like this could be a big deal in science in general. People of different fields often do unnecessary extra work (as in reinventing the wheel) because they're not aware that there's, say, 10 years of research on it.

Maybe an introductory search in other fields is what required? Or heading to the library? Even in software engineering, we see people reinventing the wheel because they can't be bothered to read a computer science book.
> We come out ahead rolling out renewables and storage as fast as possible, driving these technologies down their experience curves

We don’t have storage technology to absorb a 2% year-long grid-wide output decrease [1]. That means overbuilding or, more practically, sticking with natural gas. If we aren’t building nuclear, then continuing to build gas plants is the right move.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61943
How much time should you spend sitting versus standing?
> When is the USA going to realise that allowing companies to behave like this shouldn’t be allowed?

When this country stops fighting amongst itself over {race | skin color | wealth status | consumerism | brand loyalty | political affiliation} and aim our collective anger at companies, lobbyists, oil and gas, billionaires, and 0.01%. AKA the true people that end up writing our laws.
Very true and Google is surfacing more of it.

But both things can be true: great, deep, obscure info and general worse (dare I say, hostile) user experience.
The last time someone tried to make a highly-tactile touchscreen we got the BlackBerry Storm, and it was awful. I owned one and dropped it in a lake by accident. I did not miss it.

That said, a touchscreen with software-positioned raised areas would be very neat, if it existed.
DiskANN is worth taking a look at; their game is fast graph based search using an index on disk.
It's biased in the sense that this seems to be common practice in the region and yet China is singled out while darling US ally South Korea which does comparable things is excused (e.g. see sibling comments excusing it because of the conflict with NK).
What if the wheelchair malfunctions and injures someone else? What if my car malfunctions and causes an accident?

Also, I don't want to live in world of frauds and scams and other crimes, trying to navigate it, for obvious reasons. It's also an economic disaster.

You're doing an awful lot of work to empower already powerful people by removing democratic power over our society.
How many unsuccessful “indie hackers” read those same books?

Can you expand your idea to include what the successful indie hackers wear, what they eat, what time they wake up, what skin care products they use? I want to emulate them as carefully as possible so I can succeed.
Discussion [0] (31 points, 21 days ago, 21 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40017075
I would assume at least North Korea does. But every modern state requires you to at least work and to have housing, in order to generate taxable revenue and afford the means of survival.

But unless you hunt and grow your own food, own your own land and aren't subject to laws or government that owns your identity and tells you where you can go and what you can do, you aren't sovereign. If you have to spend the majority of your useful life trading your labor to a corporation, you aren't sovereign even if the market gives you the option of which feudal lord to serve as vassal to. If you require modern technological society, the infrastructure of agriculture and healthcare, for your survival, you aren't sovereign. There is a reason that word is synonymous with "ruler" or "king," it's a status that very few people, particularly in modern society, can claim.
Lmao no. Only a small fraction ever see that wealth, the same fraction who are selling the cheap labour of the factory worker underclass: https://www.marketplace.org/2023/04/17/why-more-workers-in-c...

No money raining down on the poor workers who gotta buy their own safety equipment or just deal without having any. Your job is to drip your hands in mercury every day don't like it then there are a thousand waiting to step in to replace you.
But it's not a thesis of Die Deutschen Wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken nach dem Krieg, it's just a quote, and it does not support that "most of the knowledge lost in the war in todays Poland was actually knowledge of german culture and heritage", this is out of the scope of Georg Leyh work
Are the USSR ones technically copyright-free? Because the UK ones are Crown Copyright IIRC and can't be used by the public without fees.
None. Only 4 in the basement that belong to me right now. 4 more as the wife’s.
Should be illegal. Instead of offering coupon codes, should be open sourced or unlocked. No reason to send this to the local landfill if it’s primary job is still functional.
imagine this!

Have short charging strips at traffic lights then prioritize lanes with cars that dont need much charge.